US has already broken its promises on civilian deaths, says Afghanistan

The United States has broken promises made to Afghanistan last week after an airstrike in Helmand province killed a toddler and injured two women, a senior Afghan government official has said.

The first allegations of a civilian death in a Nato bombing for over two months comes at a particularly awkward time for US-Afghan relations, which are heavily strained by the refusal of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to sign a security pact allowing US forces to stay on after 2014.

The US-Afghan bilateral security agreement (BSA) was endorsed at a loya jirga (national gathering) convened by Karzai last week and which was was expected to finalise the deal after a year of painful negotiations.

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